Either Android (Google's phone platform) will take over the world, or the robots befriending our toddlers will. Either way, we're headed for a takeover of the technology variety. In other news, secret Asus sources say they're building an Apple tablet. Huh. Really? Ok. If you want to.

Christopher
This is not like a bus. Gas use will go down. And people like me could
drive!

This is Shalin (psych!)Dave from LA
The Google software for phones is released under open-source license
with no restrictions.

Anon.
Could there be free or cheap ad-supported cell phone service? Answer

TODAY'S E-MAIL:

Mobile devices
I work in a medium-sized company who has recently taken on the project
of writing an application for a portable device. We have two strains of
this software, one for Linux, and one for Windows. The Linux port took
about six weeks. The Windows port has been in the works for three years.
Rarely known to developers, Windows Mobile limits each process to 32MB
of RAM. This is one of the many limitations of Windows. Also, not all
variants of hardware which run Windows Mobile are compatible. For
developers this causes a huge pain. Palm OS has frequent hacks required
in order to support the simplest apps. Linux is the only OS which we can
easily implement on the mobile platform and have it spread.

Anonymous

Well, actually
Molly,

You threw a flag for a victory dance in episode 597. You stated that
this was a 5-yard penalty. Well actually, it would be for
unsportsmanlike conduct, which would be a 15-yard penalty.

Nick in Kalamazoo

Correction about WGA strike caller
I'm sure you guys got a ton of e-mails about this, but the guy who e-mailed in and said all of these shows would soldier on through the rest
of the season with no problems was dead wrong.

If you watched TV last night, you obviously saw all the late night shows
are in reruns (I didn't catch Leno or Letterman, but Conan, Daily
Show, Craig Ferguson, etc., all appeared to already be in reruns).
Soaps will go in the next couple of weeks. And as you can see from that
chart, very few shows have full seasons done. There's already a story
out from one of TV Guide's bloggers that Heroes is shooting an
alternate ending for an episode on December 3 that would serve as the
season finale, cutting out a sizeable chunk of episodes if the strike
goes on.

This isn't a good thing.

Chris Littmann
Charlotte

Flux capacitor
Hey guys,

Yesterday, you guys forgot to mention the anniversary of a red-letter
date in the history of science! Doctor Emmett Brown invented the flux
capacitor on November 5, 1955. I nearly fell off my hoverboard when I
realized you didn't mention it, but thanks to Doc Brown, you can always
go back and fix it.

About the author

Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
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